# Ireland: Discrimination in the rental housing market (Sept 2020) * **Discrimination in the rental housing market: a field experiment in Ireland** * By Egle Gusciute. Published online on 4 September 2020 in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies * * **Abstract**: * This paper presents the results of a first field experiment on **ethnic discrimination in the rental housing market in Ireland,** and considers ethnic discrimination against European and non-European migrants. * The experimental involved creating six fictitious applicants with different ethnic and gender names that applied for vacant rental apartments advertised online. * Results of the experiment show that **Irish applicants are more likely to be invited to view an apartment than both Polish and Nigerian applicants. But Polish applicants are more likely to be invited to view an apartment than Nigerian applicants.** * There is also discrimination based on gender - females have received more invitations to view apartments than male applicants. * **Keywords**: Ireland, housing market, discrimination, rental housing market, rental market, migrants, anti-migrant discrimination. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://housing-base.journalismarena.eu/access-to-housing/academic-reports-and-papers/ireland-discrimination-in-the-rental-housing-market-september-2020.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.